diff --git a/srcpkgs/gksu/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/gksu/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9e0be46af34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gksu/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gksu is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/04/07
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gksu/template b/srcpkgs/gksu/template
index 54700c477f8..f39abc4c457 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gksu/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gksu/template
@@ -1,15 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'gksu'
 pkgname=gksu
 version=2.0.2
-revision=3
-build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--disable-static --disable-nautilus-extension"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config intltool gtk-doc"
-makedepends="gtk+-devel libgksu-devel"
-depends="desktop-file-utils xauth"
-short_desc="Graphical frontend for su"
-maintainer="Alexey Rochev <equeim@gmail.com>"
-license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
+revision=4
+noarch=yes
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Graphical frontend for su (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
 homepage="http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/index.html"
-distfiles="http://people.debian.org/~kov/gksu/gksu-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=a1de3dca039d88c195fcdc9516379439a1d699750417f1e655aa2101a955ee5a